Time, Space, and Motion in the Age of Shakespeare /

Time, Space, and Motion in the Age of Shakespeare / / Angus Fletcher.

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This focused but far-reaching work by the distinguished scholar Angus Fletcher reveals how early modern science and English poetry were in many ways components of one process: discovering the secrets of motion. Beginning with the achievement of Galileo, Time, Space, and Motion identifies the problem...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
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Fletcher, Angus,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]
©2006
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (192 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Galileo's Metaphor
  • Chapter 2. The Theme of Motion
  • Chapter 3. On Drama, Poetry, and Movement
  • Chapter 4. Marlowe Invents the Deadline
  • Chapter 5. The Defense of the Interim
  • Chapter 6. Structure of an Epitaph
  • Chapter 7. Donne's Apocryphal Wit
  • Chapter 8. Milton and the Moons of Jupiter
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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